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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 40

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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

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Night, Expectations, Dawn

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

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Prosperity, Ends, Prosperous
"Hercules on Mount Oeta". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 713, 1st century.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

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Dawn, Proud, Evening

Life is long if you know how to use it.

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Long, Use, Life Is

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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Teacher, Vices, Directors

True love can fear no one.

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Fear No One

Men learn while they teach.

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Inspirational, Education, Teacher
Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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Inspirational, Motivation, Men
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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Happiness, Failure, Adversity

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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Leadership, Philosophical, Vision
"Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

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Mind, Culture, May

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

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Beer, Views, Alcohol

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

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Real, Exercise, Men

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

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Character, Needs, Crooked

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

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Gratitude, Appreciation, Struggle
"On Benefits". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

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Peace, Attitude, Perception

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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Stupid, Philosophical, Adversity
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Man is a social animal.

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Philosophy, Animal, Men
"De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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Philosophical, Justice, May
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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Life, Anger, Suicidal

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

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Sad, Suicidal, Sadness

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

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Sympathy, Grief, Doe
"Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

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Happiness, Stress, Men

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

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Country, Father, Patriotism
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 584-87, Octavia, 444, 1922.

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